Developing Large Web Applications: Producing Code That Can Grow and Thrive

by Kyle Loudon

How do you create a mission-critical site that provides exceptional performance while remaining flexible, adaptable, and reliable 24/7? Written by the manager of a UI group at Yahoo!, Developing Large Web Applications offers practical steps for building rock-solid applications that remain effective even as you add features, functions, and users. You'll learn how to develop large web applications with the extreme precision required for other types of software.Avoid common coding and maintenance headaches as small websites add more pages, more code, and more programmersGet comprehensive solutions for refining HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ajax for large-scale web applicationsMake changes in one place that ripple through all affected page elementsEmbrace the virtues of modularity, encapsulation, abstraction, and loosely coupled componentsUse tried-and-true techniques for managing data exchange, including working with forms and cookiesLearn often-overlooked best practices in code management and software engineeringPrepare your code to make performance enhancements and testing easier

Genres: Web, Programming

304 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 24, 2010

Reviews

[Alessandro Pellizzari · Rating 2 out of 5]

Un po' scarno, e riassume in poco spazio concetti e pratiche abbastanza diffuse e non particolarmente innovative.

Tende anche a concentrarsi un po' troppo su YUI e consiglia nomi che tendono ad essere anacronistici per le classi html.

Quattro stelle invece di tre perché potrebbe essere utile a chi non ha mai affrontato siti piú grandi del classico home-dovesiamo-chisiamo-contatti-prodotti. Ma comunque abbastanza inutile per chi sviluppa cms o sistemi piú complessi.

Update 2013: rivisto il giudizio perché con un po' più di esperienza, soprattutto in campo Javascript, mi sono accorto che quello che vieni spiegato qui come metodologia di programmazione, è spesso sbagliato, inefficiente, e/o impossibile da mantenere su grandi progetti. Va bene giusto per progetti poco più grandi del suddetto dovesiamo-...

[Florian Nitschmann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book about developing large webapps. The best parts I think, are those about CSS and JavaScript. I can recommand this book to every webdeveloper!

[Razvan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not quite relevant anymore on implementation, but good to read though because of the key concepts it presents.

[Tuula · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some parts were familiar some not, so review relates to points that good take from the book. Overall normal O'Reilly quality, so good content, clearly presented.